Academy Awards Archives - Jimmy Win

No matter who wins on Oscar night, the 2015 Academy Awards will be remembered for the stunning lack of diversity in its nominees that spawned the hash tag #OscarsSoWhite. For the first time in almost 20 years, there is not a single person of color among the 20 nominations for…

Are Hollywood award nominees and winners too often white? Actress/writer Erin Quill (original Broadway cast of Avenue Q; The Mikado Project) thinks so. Erin served on the television acting nomination committee for the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards. She voted for a racially diverse slate, but when the nominations were…

2013 Oscar winners in acting categories (c) Corbis Images The Oscars have always been my favorite awards show. I love the movies, the red carpet glamour, and the celebrities. But most of all, I love the winner speeches. So for this edition of Speaker Points, I review acceptance…

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Jimmy Nguyen is nationally-recognized as an award-winning lawyer, LGBT and diversity advocate, digital media thinker, and speech expert. With a last name pronounced like the word “WIN,” Jimmy’s message for everyone is “Why Fit In? Stand Out and WIN.”
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